Hated Wolverine
Loved Layer Cake
Am cautious but excited about new X-Men. But I will follow McAvoy almost anywhere.
Wash: Don't fall asleep now. Sleepiness is weakness of character. Ask anyone. You're acting captain. Know what happens you fall asleep now? Zoe: Jayne slits my throat, and takes over. Wash: That's right. Zoe: And we can't stop it.
'Shindig'
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Juliebird - Feb 10, 2011 3:05:15 pm PST #13252 of 30000
I am the fly who dreams of the spider
sumi - Feb 14, 2011 4:15:28 am PST #13253 of 30000
Art Crawl!!!
Brief piece with Richard Armitage about The Hobbit.
Frankenbuddha - Feb 14, 2011 5:26:30 am PST #13254 of 30000
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
So, I saw Shutter Island last night, and I think I liked it better than most people I know who saw it. I figured out the big twist right away, but I think you were supposed to – it was the how of the reveal that was the thing, not the what. That said, I felt like I was watching Inception: The Goth Remix (or maybe because it came out first, Inception is Shutter Island: The Techno Version?).
I mean seriously:
- Leonardo DeCaprio as a haunted, possibly unbalanced investigator in scenes where it becomes difficult to determine what’s real and what isn’t incorporating dreams/flashbacks within dreams/flashbacks
- Obscure and often frightening visions of Leo’s dead wife, plus haunting flashes of children
- An atonal, bombastic soundtrack punctuated by a Significant Song that sometimes is shown playing on a turntable
- A loyal second-in-command who disappears from Leo’s reality for most of the latter part of the movie
- An ambiguous ending leaving the exact nature of Leo’s final fate up for question
So I guess it comes down to:
- Gothic horror noir vs. retro-future noir
- Michelle Williams vs. Marion Cotillard
- Mark Ruffalo vs. JG-L
- Ben Kingsley, Max Von Sydow, Jackie Earl Haley, Ted Levine, Elias Koteas & Patricia Clarkson vs. Ken Watanabe, Michael Caine, Cillian Murphy, Tom Berenger and Pete Postlethwaite
- Hitchcock, Michael Powell and Mario Bava vs. video games, William Gibson and Conrad Hilton
There’s no real equivalent of Tom Hardy, though.
sumi - Feb 14, 2011 6:40:28 am PST #13255 of 30000
Art Crawl!!!
Al Pacino is going to play Matisse.
sumi - Feb 14, 2011 8:12:17 am PST #13256 of 30000
Art Crawl!!!
sumi - Feb 14, 2011 8:35:55 am PST #13257 of 30000
Art Crawl!!!
§ ita § - Feb 14, 2011 8:47:47 am PST #13258 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
OMG, I want to start hugging them already. There's no way this will be the same sort of surreal experience LotR was, but I'm willing to peck at scraps, and it's a wonderful cast, and oh! Excited.
sumi - Feb 14, 2011 8:49:48 am PST #13259 of 30000
Art Crawl!!!
I know!
quester - Feb 14, 2011 9:16:46 am PST #13260 of 30000
Danger is my middle name, only I spell it R. u. t. h. - Tina Belcher.
Wow, I didn't know that some of those guys were cast! Hyde and the Vampire? Cool!
smonster - Feb 14, 2011 2:50:05 pm PST #13261 of 30000
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
There’s no real equivalent of Tom Hardy, though.
Can I get an AMEN up in here?